We are trying to make "family time", when we often watch shows with the kids before bedtime, more often into "family game time." That's what we did with Back to the Future last night. The girls piled into bed and we all sat and watched the Back to the Future game. It was better than watching television.

The Telltale games are really great for other people to watch as you play. They have so much to see and so much dialogue and move along really quickly.

I spent a lot of this last weekend playing Civilization: Beyond Earth with the new Rising Tide expansion.

Just like the expansions for Civ 4 and Civ 5, they added a ton of new content that really changes how the game is played. I've been enjoying the revamped diplomacy system and the new artifact system they put in - it's feeling a lot more like a modern update to Alpha Centauri now, versus the reskinned Civ 5 it felt like when I first played it.